This is a nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works where modern high pressure techniques convert products of Texas' oil industry into chemicals used by other DuPont plants in the manufacture of nylon yarn and plastics. In the...

Picture above is a section of the adiponitrile storage area at the Niagara Falls plant of DuPont's Electrochemicals Department. During the manufacture of this nylon intermediate, furan, tetrahydrofuran and 1,4 dichlorobutane are produced. These...

The nylon intermediates unit at DuPont's Sabine River Works located near Orange, Texas. At this plant, the Plastics Department uses high pressure techniques to convert products of the Texas oil industry into many chemicals.

At this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates....

Aerial view of the benzol plant at the Bell, WV Workd of the DuPont Company. Benzol is one of the materials used here in the manufactyre of nylon intermediates for the nylon yarn and plastics produced at other DuPont plants. At the left are...

Aerial view of the Deepwater Point, New Jersey plant which consists of about 800 buildings in which approximately 6500 people are employed. In the Deepwater Point area are manufactured neoprene, a chloroprene rubber; synthetic camphor; dyestuffs;...

The Explosives Department's Eastern Laboratory (foreground) at Gibbstown, New Jersey. The winding road in the center of the photograph running to the dock divides the laboratory from the Repauno Works. This pioneer research laboratory, one of the...

Air conditioned control room of one of the processes for making nylon intermediates at DuPont's Sabine River Works at Orange, Texas. The dials tell operator what is going on inside the tanks and distillation towers elsewhere in the plant. These...

Thylox absorbers and scrubbers cleanse and purify gases in an important step in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Companys Belle WV Works. Coal is the main raw material used at Belle. Other products of plant include...

An aerial view of the DuPont Chambers Works. The plant occupies about 600 acres, employs approximately 6,000 people and produces some 2,500 specific chemical compounds. Among its chief chemical products are dyes and intermediates, textiles and...

Burnside Laboratory at Carney's Point, New Jersey. Here the DuPont Company does research on smokeless powder and other propellants, ballistics, nitro-cellulose and other cellulose products, as well as on polymer intermediates.

The Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) and plastic...

Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...

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Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon....